OUR STORY
I took a different path.
Now I’m bringing our family’s coffee to people here.
My grandfather, Alfonso González, and my father, Don Julio González, are at the heart of this family story. My father began working on the farm when he was young. Today, he still grows coffee in Ciudad Bolívar, Antioquia, Colombia.
I grew up in town, but spent plenty of time at las fincas, picking coffee and rounding up cattle. Sundays meant my mother’s cooking and the whole family around the table.
I took a different path. I became a pilot, left flying, and eventually made my way into real estate in the San Francisco Bay Area. Now I want to share my family’s coffee with people here. It’s a way back to that part of my life—and another excuse to sit down with my father for a cafecito.
Julio